Gabriel Epstein
@GabrielEpsteinX
Policy & Comms Associate @IsraelPolicy4m. Former Research Assistant @WashInstitute. Graduate @SAISHopkins.
Yesterday (7/15), the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry (MOH) released its 11th list of the dead (via Telegram and WhatsApp) since the Israel-Hamas war began, containing 58,380 entries and covering up to July 15. An analysis🧵:
Worth reading very closely. Three key questions: 1) What can be done (even partially) now, without waiting for a ceasefire? 2) Which of these are possible without returning control of aid to Hamas? 3) Are states/private sector as ready to scale up as the U.N. says it is?
Enough. Gaza is starving. Ceasefire now. We must save as many lives as we can – and we have a plan. My update to UN Member States on the steps necessary to stop this horror👇 unocha.org/considerations…
horsdoeuvresofbattle.blog/2025/07/22/the… I may have written 12K words on the war, Iran's missile performance, and where we go from here. I hope it is illuminating.
Israeli and American officials say Hamas dug in and toughened its demands in the Doha ceasefire talks in recent days as they believe the international coverage and condemnation of the hunger in Gaza has given them “the upper hand”. Pause now in talks to get Hamas to climb down
This is even more urgent with the announcement that the U.S. is recalling its mediating team from Doha. The aid crisis has to be fixed immediately -- a ceasefire is reliant on the whims of Hamas, who does not care about the survival and welfare of Gazans. x.com/SEPeaceMission…
The major aid vectors in Gaza–the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and the U.N.-facilitated mechanism–are failing. Each has unique challenges, but they share two key ones: lack of capacity and the breakdown of law and order. 🧵
At @SenateForeign, I testified that the weakening of the Iranian axis via Israeli/US military power presents significant political/diplomatic opportunities in the ME. But I emphasized that expanding regional integration can't get of the ground until the war in Gaza ends. 1/10